In China, people may speak privately about political taboos, like the detention of Uighurs, but to do so in public can be highly risky. Jiayang Fan reports on how the app Clubhouse has suddenly offered a platform for large numbers of people to communicate honestly and reckon with their government’s human-rights abuses. Plus, Anthony Hopkins, discussing his new role as a father with dementia, spills the trade secrets of a lifetime: “Don’t act too much,” he tells us. And the writer Patricia Lockwood puts the language of the Internet into the form of a novel.
Clubhouse Opens a Window for Free Expression in China
Until recently, Chinese citizens could only speak privately about political taboos, like the detention of Uighurs; suddenly, an app has offered a chance to talk out loud and honestly.
Anthony Hopkins on “The Father”
The veteran actor explains why taxing roles, like that of a man suffering from dementia, are no big challenge. “When you’re working with a superb script,” he says, “don’t act too much.”
Patricia Lockwood Talks with Katy Waldman
In her début novel, the writer makes literature out of the fractured consciousness of an obsessive Twitter user.
